Jude Law

Jude Law

Birthday: 1972-12-29

Place of Birth: Lewisham, London, England, UK

Biography: David Jude Heyworth Law (born December 29, 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in theatre before landing small roles in various British television productions and feature films. Law gained international recognition for his role in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Law found further critical and commercial success in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002), Minghella's Cold Mountain (2003), for which he earned Academy Award and BAFTA nominations, in addition to the drama Closer (2004) and the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006). His subsequent roles were as Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), a young Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), and Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019); all of which rank among his highest-grossing releases. Other notable films include Contagion (2011), Hugo (2011), Side Effects (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Spy (2015), as well as the television series The Young Pope (2016), The New Pope (2020), and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (2024). In addition to his film work, Law has performed in several West End and Broadway productions, including Les Parents Terribles in 1994, Hamlet in 2010, and Anna Christie in 2011. These earned him nominations for two Tony Awards. The French government has also awarded him the Honorary Césarand and named him a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Movies

Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the Gates

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII....

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The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nob...

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Breaking and Entering
Breaking and Entering

Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair whic...

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Immortality
Immortality

A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him....

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A.I. Artificial Intelligence

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertr...

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The Holiday
The Holiday

Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each wo...

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I ♥ Huckabees
I ♥ Huckabees

A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo hel...

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Gattaca
Gattaca

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is a...

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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes

Eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nem...

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All the King's Men
All the King's Men

The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that ...

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Closer
Closer

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets...

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Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wou...

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eXistenZ
eXistenZ

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marke...

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The Aviator
The Aviator

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, durin...

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My Blueberry Nights
My Blueberry Nights

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her frien...

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Road to Perdition
Road to Perdition

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figur...

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Sleuth
Sleuth

Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle com...

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The Order
The Order

A string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads veteran FBI agent Terry Husk into a whi...

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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them of...

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Wilde
Wilde

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, the...

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

After a carnival troupe saves his life, a man agrees to help its immortal leader collect five souls ...

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Repo Men
Repo Men

In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs t...

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionai...

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Alfie
Alfie

A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence....

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Firebrand
Firebrand

Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. ...

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Rage
Rage

A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York...

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Hugo
Hugo

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s P...

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Shopping
Shopping

A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram...

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I Love You, I Love You Not
I Love You, I Love You Not

A school student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives....

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Contagion
Contagion

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide me...

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Love, Honour and Obey
Love, Honour and Obey

Jonny dreams of leaving his dead-end job as a courier. Through his childhood best friend, nephew of ...

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Music from Another Room
Music from Another Room

Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who gre...

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Final Cut
Final Cut

A group of friends gather for a wake, and are shown a video shot by Jude and starring them before he...

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Rise of the Guardians
Rise of the Guardians

When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guard...

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Bent
Bent

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for h...

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Eden
Eden

A group of disillusioned outsiders abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on ...

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The Day After Peace
The Day After Peace

Against all the odds an individual manages to create an annual global 'Peace Day'; but can he inspir...

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellec...

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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...

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Presence of Mind
Presence of Mind

A governess, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haun...

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360
360

A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneli...

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The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars ...

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Side Effects
Side Effects

A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's u...

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The Talented Mr. Ripley: Making the Soundtrack
The Talented Mr. Ripley: Making the Soundtrack

Making the soundtrack of the hit film....

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Reflections on 'the Talented Mr. Ripley'
Reflections on 'the Talented Mr. Ripley'

The stars of director of the film reflect upon their experiences....

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Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'

A look inside the making of 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'....

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Dom Hemingway
Dom Hemingway

After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway i...

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Radioman
Radioman

The extraordinary story of 'Radioman', a New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alc...

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Black Sea
Black Sea

A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be l...

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Spy
Spy

A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer...

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Genius
Genius

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

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Harold Pinter:  A Celebration
Harold Pinter: A Celebration

In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration ...

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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

When the child Arthur’s father is murdered, Vortigern, Arthur’s uncle, seizes the crown. Robbed of h...

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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

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The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor of Gloucester

An ill tailor is trying to finish a coat for a wealthy man. He is hindered by his cat and helped by ...

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The Vote
The Vote

On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling st...

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Live 8
Live 8

On 2 July 2005 an estimated 3 billion people came together in the fight against extreme poverty. LIV...

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The Wizard of the Kremlin
The Wizard of the Kremlin

Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. ...

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Connection
Connection

A celebrity meets a person at the airport. All is fine until the person finds out that if they retur...

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Untitled Jude Law x Justin Kuritzkes Movie
Untitled Jude Law x Justin Kuritzkes Movie

Said to be a Mike Nichols-inspired film. Plot under wraps....

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The Roof
The Roof

A brief comedy about a visit from a legendary theatre maker and his legion of fans....

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Vox Lux
Vox Lux

In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose...

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Muse of Fire
Muse of Fire

Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespear...

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National Theatre Live: Obsession
National Theatre Live: Obsession

Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters h...

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevatin...

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A Rainy Day in New York
A Rainy Day in New York

Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad we...

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The Rhythm Section
The Rhythm Section

When she discovers the plane crash that claimed the lives of her family was no accident, Stephanie P...

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Free Speech Fear Free
Free Speech Fear Free

Can we really be fully human without Free Speech? Is free speech the oxygen of our society? Without ...

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The Nest
The Nest

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, Engla...

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The Crane
The Crane

An enigmatic fragment of a bigger story, showing events leading up to a pivotal moment in the life o...

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Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel

The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth...

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Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier
Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier

The invisible art of production designer Carol Spier. The relationship between director and producti...

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Skywatch
Skywatch

When two outcast teens hack into a drone to pull a prank on their neighbor, they accidentally find t...

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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize co...

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Perfect Chemistry
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Perfect Chemistry

The ever-budding relationship between Holmes and Watson, as well as the bonding duo who portray them...

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Sherlock Holmes: Reinvented
Sherlock Holmes: Reinvented

Making of featurette for Sherlock Holmes (2009)....

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Peter Pan & Wendy
Peter Pan & Wendy

Wendy Darling, a young girl afraid to leave her childhood home behind, meets Peter Pan, a boy who re...

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A Place in Time
A Place in Time

The film takes a look at the daily lives of people in more than two dozen countries around the world...

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The Third Day: Autumn
The Third Day: Autumn

The Third Day: Autumn invites viewers deeper into the suspenseful world of The Third Day. Featuring ...

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The Hat
The Hat

A young man wanders into the middle of a barren field, and just as he’s enjoying the peace of it all...

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Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall

Inspired by "Letters of Note", the bestselling anthology compiled by Shaun Usher, and "To the Letter...

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Happy M’Gee
Happy M’Gee

In the near future a neurodiverse man causes a fatal accident with deadly repercussions for his brot...

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Exit Through the Gift Shop
Exit Through the Gift Shop

Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurri...

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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos ...

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Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10

Enjoy some of the bet sketches from SNL's 35th season including Will Forte as MacGruber, Kenan Thomp...

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Punchdrunk: Behind the Mask
Punchdrunk: Behind the Mask

Discover the story of Punchdrunk, the pioneering and hugely secretive theatre company whose producti...

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The Boy in the Oak
The Boy in the Oak

A boy acts with cruelty towards the nature in his family's back garden....

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